February 23, 2002 - Franklin Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 02/23/2002 - 11:00pmDecember 21, 2002 - Holiday Party
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 01/20/2002 - 11:00pmJanuary 12, 2002 - Cambrian Fossils, Cherokee Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 01/12/2002 - 11:00pmWe collected in Cherokee County, Alabama, in the pebbles and shaley outcrops around a lake, which was low for the winter, exposing a wide shoreline. An outcrop of the Middle Cambrian Conasauga Shale of the Coosa Valley is at this site, and numerous trilobites were found. A number of members went scouting for new sites in the area.
December 1, 2001 - Holiday Party
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 12/01/2001 - 11:00pmNovember 17, 2001 - Walker Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 11/17/2001 - 11:00pmOctober 6, 2001 - Walker Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 10/06/2001 - 11:00pmSeptember 29, 2001 - Covington Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 09/29/2001 - 11:00pmAugust 25, 2001 - Colbert Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sat, 08/25/2001 - 11:00pmBPS members took a long road trip to roadcuts in Colbert County on August 25, where everyone found a good selection of blastoids, brachiopods, trilobites, and other Mississippian age fossils at two separate collecting sites.
Afterwards, we relaxed and cooled off in a creek on some propery owned by one of our members.
July 21, 2001 - Clarke and Washington Co, AL
Submitted by Vicki Lais on Sun, 07/22/2001 - 11:00pmBPS members went to a Clarke County site where whale fossils have been found in the past, but none were found on this day. We also collected at a privately owned quarry in Washington County, Alabama, where numerous echinoids, sand dollars, and foraminifera were found.
Forams with a sand dollar showing in the matrix.
Numerous sand dollars were found in this quarry.
Summer, 2001 - Jefferson Co, AL
Submitted by admin2 on Sun, 06/24/2001 - 11:00pmSeveral times during the summer, members collected in north Jefferson county, in an area being cleared for a shopping center.